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No. 416,171. Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELLA J. MAHONEY, OF DETROIT, MlGHIGAN.

ARTICLE OF AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION FOR CHILDREN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,171, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed May 2 2, 1 8 89.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELLA J. MAHONEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of \Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Articles of Amusement and Instruction for Children, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to articles of amusement and instruction for children, consisting of one or more sheets or cards of paper or similar material having thereon pictorial illustrations of landscapes and similar outdoor views and of houses and the interiors of the same, together with means for applying to different places on said landscape or to said interior portions of the house representations of objects belonging thereto, and of changing the positions of said objects at will, the object beingto provide an improved article or articles of amusement and instruction for children; and the invention consists in the peculiar arrangement upon said cards or sheets of the requisite pictorial illustrations above referred to, in combination with movable objects to be used therewith, all as hereinafter fully de' scribed, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a representation of a room in a house, showing thereon, in dotted lines, the positions of representations of persons and objects which may be temporarily attached thereto. Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 illustrate in full lines, respectively, a picture, a woman, a child, and a chair, being the objects shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a representation of a house, a landscape, and a pond or lake, showing thereon, in dotted and full lines, the positions of representations of persons and objects which may be temporarily attached thereto. Figs. 7, 8, and 9 illustrate in full lines, respectively, a child with ahoop, a boat, and an animal with a boy thereon,being the objects shown in dotted lines in Fig. 6, the latter, however, showing one boat in full lines thereon, and Fig. 7 showing both the front and the rear view of said child with a hoop.

In the drawings, 2, 3, and at, Fig. 1, represent the walls of a room in a house, and 5 the floor of the room. This representation of a Serial No. 311,753. (No model.)

room, or what may be termed an interior,

is only one of many others that may be em-' ployed for the purposes herein set forth; but

this representation serves to fully illustrate the purpose of this invention, and it is obvious that, while Fig. 1 may represent a drawing or a reception room in a house and ture and ornaments of such rooms without departing from the spirit of this invention, and hence it is deemed sufficient to illustrate the same by the figures above referred to.

In utilizing the within-d escribed invention for the amusement of children and for their instruction also in placing objects most advantageously in or about the house the said objects are made, preferably, from paper, on which is printed the outline of the object or any fully-colored figure, as may be deemed most desirable, and certain of those objects are shown in the drawings-as, for instance, 6, illustrating a picture and its frame, which is adapted to be attached to the side or wall 3 of the room shown in Fig. 1, as there indicated in dotted lines, or to any other desirable part of the walls of said room.

7 is a representation of a woman, which is also indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and this representation also may be, as below described, attached in different positions on the representation in Fig. 1.

8 represents a child, and 9 a chair, both of which figures are represented, as aforesaid, in Fig. 1, and these likewise maybe attached in different positions and places on Fig. 1.

To provide for attaching the above-named several figures or things illustrated in Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 to the interior representation, as aforesaid, the said figures, which in practice are cut out from the paper on which they are printed, have applied to the rear side thereof some suitable cement, preferably of the nature which is applied to postage-stamps,

whereby by slightly moistening a small part of the surface so cemented the figure may be made to adhere temporarily to some one partof an interior similar to Fig. 1,or to some exterior portion of a house or building, as may be desired, and any one of said figures so attached may be easily removed and attached to some other portion of the room or place, thereby afiording means for producing an infinite variety of positions and situations of persons and things, which call for such an eX- hibition of ingenuity and thought on the part of the child practicing this amusement as renders it instructive.

It is obvious that for the illustrations of the many different rooms above described other than are shown in the drawings furniture, objects, and persons in great variety, arranged to be applied as aforesaid, may be used in connection therewith.

Figs. 7, 8, and 9 illustrate certain objects, as above set forth, which are cut from paper and cemented, as aforesaid, which maybe applied in different positions on the landscape,

Fig. 6, 10 being a girl with ahoop, (front and rear vieW,) 11 a boat, and 12 an animal with a boy thereon; and it is likewise obvious, in relation to the said landscape 13, that other objectsas representations of horses, carriages, &e.may be substituted for those shown in the drawings, all capable of being made to assume a great variety of positions, as set forth in relation to the figures represented in Figs 1 to 5, inclusive.

hat I claim as my invention is An article of amusement and instruction for children, consisting of cards or sheets having thereon pictorial illustrations of landscapes and dwellings and of printed representations of objects, substantially as described, said objects being attachable at pleasure in different positions-on said pictorial illustrations and detachable therefrom, substantially as set forth.

ELLA J. MAI-IONEY. lVitnesses:

W. A. MAHoNEY, WILLIAM W. HANNAN. 

